GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Monday said it had appointed Dr. Leslie Wade, as its new Permanent Observer to the United Nations (UN).

NEW YORK, New York – Immigration advocates in New York on Saturday warned that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s immigration appointments are setting the stage to “operationalize” his mass deportation agenda involving Caribbean and other immigrants. 

ROSEAU, Dominica – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is  calling for greater unity among member states of the Caribbean, noting that a united region is needed to deal with the mounting global challenges.

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago – The  Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), Farley Augustine, Monday described as “inconsequential nonsense”  the amendments which the government tabled in the Parliament regarding the legislation for the autonomy of Tobago.

KINGSTON, Jamaica –  Justice Althea Jarrett Friday granted permission to Prime Minister Andrew Holness to challenge the investigative report of the Integrity Commission (IC) into his financial affairs.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman, Yvette D. Clarke, says she was “honored” to have joined a bipartisan United States Congressional delegation to Barbados last weekend for talks with Caribbean leaders.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The main opposition United National Congress (UNC) Monday used its numbers in the Parliament to prevent the government from pushing forward legislation regarding the granting of autonomy to Tobago.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared the island’s  road situation a national emergency and has allocated J$2 billion to effect repairs to the main road network to get them up to what he said is a “drivable condition”.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Chairman of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) Weldon Maddan has resigned following the agency’s controversial decision to drop criminal charges against a company – Trade Winds Citrus, that was reportedly responsible for an oil spill in a river located in the central parish of St Catherine last year.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamas government Friday reiterated that it has held no discussions with President -elect Donald Trump regarding the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country being among jurisdictions that have been identified to send deportation flights for Washington’s promised mass deportation program next year.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Grenada government is denying claims that the island will be one of the jurisdictions that the incoming Donald Trump Administration has identified to send deportation flights for its promised mass deportation programme next year.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduran President, Xiomara Castro, says she will convene a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to seek an urgent and solidarity-based solution to the crisis in Haiti, where criminal gangs have been seeking to overthrow the government.